This collection focuses on the work and lives of author Johannes and poet Gertrude Urzidil. It contains drafts of published works, correspondence, clippings, personal documents, financial and legal documents, objects, photographs, and audio cassette tapes
14-page inventory
EAD finding aid available online
See individual box records for inventory
A memoir by Gertrude Thieberger Urzidil was moved to the memoir collection: "1898-1977: Memoirs on the Prague Circle; Interview" (Oral History Research Office, Columbia University) (ME 473); it is also available on microfilm (MM 78)
Some manuscripts by Johannes Urzidil have been removed from the collection and are now located in the LBI's Manuscript and Memoir Collection:
Von der grossen Finsternis zu New York (MS 357; MSF 26)
Bist du es Ronald? (MS 363; MSF 26)
Der Stahlpalast (MS 367; MSF 26)
"Die Herzogin von Aleanara" (MS 368; MSF 26)
"Gestalten" (MS 369; MSF 26)
"Die Rippe der Grossmutter" (MS 370; MSF 27)
"Das Haus Colonna" (MS 371; MSF 27)
"Central Park" (MS 372; MSF 27)
"Die Aktualitaet Walt Whitmans" (MS 373; MSF 27)
"Transozeanische Spiegelungen" (MS 374; MSF 27)
"Weltreise in Concord" (MS 375; MSF 27)
"Henry David Thoreau" (MS 376; MSF 27)
"Pigeon Feed" (MS 377; MSF 27)
"La continuita della produzione letteraria da Praga a New York" (MS 380; MSF 27)
"Das 'Prager Tryptychon' und seine Erzaehlstruktur" (MS 389; MSF 29)
